Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/pager/CodexTablePager.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.44.1.

According to its self-reported version number, the instance of MediaWiki hosted on the remote web server is prior to 1.39.14, 1.43.x prior to 1.43.4 or 1.44.x prior to 1.44.1. It is, therefore, affected by a number of vulnerabilities as follows.

- REST does not set a cache-control value of max-age=60 for redirects. (CVE-2025-61634)

- ApiFancyCaptchaReload does not reuse the badcaptcha rate limit in ConfirmEdit. (CVE-2025-61635)

- Failure to escape rawElement $content. (CVE-2025-61636)

- Failure to escape three system messages used by live preview. (CVE-2025-61637)

- Failure to sanitize data- attributes (also affects Parsoid). (CVE-2025-61638)

- Improper use of ManualLogEntry::getDeleted in ::getRecentChange. (CVE-2025-61639)

- Messages are inserted as HTML instead of being parsed. (CVE-2025-61640)

- maxsize is not disabled in QueryAllPages in miser mode. (CVE-2025-61641)

- Failure to escape the submit button label for Codex-based HTMLForms. (CVE-2025-61642)

- Suppressed recent changes are sent to RCFeeds. (CVE-2025-61643)

- i18n XSS in CodexTablePager. (CVE-2025-61645)

- Hidden usernames are leaked in Watchlist/RecentChanges. (CVE-2025-61646)

- Failure to escape system messages before inserting them as HTML in CheckUser. (CVE-2025-61648)

- XSS in the tempuser-expired-link-tooltip message in CheckUser. (CVE-2025-61651)

- API does not check user read permissions before showing PageInfo in DiscussionTools. (CVE-2025-61652)

- Missing authorizeRead check for the extracts endpoint in TextExtracts. (CVE-2025-61653)

- Deleted entries are not excluded when counting thanks in Thanks. (CVE-2025-61654)

- Improper escaping and parsing of system messages in VisualEditor. (CVE-2025-61655)

- Failure to sanitize attributes unwrapped from data-ve-attributes in VisualEditor. (CVE-2025-61656)

- Sticky header labels are inserted as HTML instead of text in Vector. (CVE-2025-61657)

- Missing config variable to exclude from GlobalContributions in CheckUser. (CVE-2025-61658)

- Reauth for enabling 2FA can be bypassed by submitting a form in OATHAuth. (CVE-2025-11173)

- DiscussionTools uses an insufficient regex. (CVE-2025-11175)

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability     in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files     includes/pager/CodexTablePager.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.44.1. (CVE-2025-61645)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
115337	MediaWiki 1.44.x < 1.44.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
115336	MediaWiki 1.43.x < 1.43.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
115335	MediaWiki < 1.39.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	high
271165	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-61645	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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